Psychoanalytic Baggage

"Should women be allowed to go topless in public?" https://www.debate.org/opinions/should-women-be-allowed-to-go-topless-in-public
No. But not for the reasons you may think, but for one you may not have considered—maybe. Read the above answers first. Though true, my more flippant opinion is highly qualifiable.   The human species is nothing if not a mess of contradictory cognitive and emotional complications, one of which is the male attachment to the mother (-object). I know you're going to refuse to believe this, nevertheless, it's true (at least in some alternate reality): When a man ogles a woman's breasts, necessarily, through a mostly unconscious series of transformations and transferences, he is remembering his mother. (A woman is most often a mother-substitute to a man.) So, when a man is attracted to a woman's breasts, he needs to get the message: "That's you're mother you're lusting after, you idiot! Is that what you really want to be doing?" Men are hopeless. (But, to be fair, so are women re men, though in a slightly different way.)

So, no, women should not flaunt their maternity in public. It is true, however, that it's not fair to women that there are laws against it. So, in the name of equality, I propose that laws be passed that men not be allowed to go topless either. Fair is fair. And, anyway, there is a similar argument to be made for why women lust after a man's bare chest. So, unless we consensually agree that it's okay to let all our psychoanalytic baggage hang out there for public viewing, keep it under your shirt.
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Criminal Activity

The fact that our government is incapable of dealing with an antisocial criminal president in a timely manner to prevent extensive damage like the kind that we have seen is evidence that we as a people do not deserve to live as a democratic nation. We deserve what we have gotten.

Chomsky has been warning us for a while now: The Independent says:

Noam Chomsky has argued the Republican Party is the most “dangerous organisation in human history” and the world has never seen an organisation more profoundly committed to destroying planet earth.″

The Republican Party is supporting a criminal president and as such self-defines as a criminal organization. Individual Republican representatives may or may not be criminals themselves, but some of them certainly are. And a case could be made that most of the rest of them are guilty of conspiracy. It's way past time to round up these criminals. Doesn't matter that arresting ‶duly elected″ officials who are (supposedly) representing their constituencies is not an act conducive to maintaining a free and democratic society. We're not a democracy any more, and we never will be again until we weed the criminals and their criminal corporate supporters out of the government and outlaw corporate lobbying.

Just as the time for toxic masculinity is over, so is the time for toxic government and toxic civil [sic] society. The time has come to outlaw the GOP (along with the KKK, the NRA, and the Usurper President) before it's too late; because, if we wait any longer, it will outlaw us. That process has already begun—a while ago. Let's stop it in its tracks, reverse its course, and return the country to democracy.

Otoh, this situation can be seen as ‶the will of the people″ since the people who willed it voted (with the support of criminal activity and a disaffected, disenfranchised, and/or dysfunctional electorate) this arrangement into power. So own it if you're not going to do something about it. You who voted for it or did not vote allowed this situation into existence and you enable it if you are not actively opposing it. So do something about it or live with this abortion until they come for you and your family. And, make no mistake about it: They will come, unless you yourself behave yourself and act or pretend to act as the perfectly obedient little citizens they want you to remain, so that they can keep the cash flow moving ever upward while they dole out your pittance that you struggle on to survive.

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Hollywood's Populist Reign

The government, in many of its aspects and personages, understands that Hollywood poses a big threat to its power and authority; which is why it doesn't overtly act against piracy and only institutes ineffective token remedies. It needs that check against what might become an otherwise ubiquitous agency. Government must discover how to incorporate the film industry into its overall structure of control. Thus far, it has been unsuccessful. One day it might manage a solution; and then, next, piracy will be brought under its control. Then copyright need no longer exist or will remain just another tool in the arsenal of the supreme authority.

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Resist control.